Many things still remind me of Bassie; another lifetime, another universe, a million and one dollars in my bank account and we would be married. She doesn’t know it, but I was that in love with her. She was not only an avid reader, she was a quick reader. Used to go through a whole …
Not many times do I read a book that has a “… and they lived happily ever after.” fairytale kinda ending and think WOW! But that’s exactly what Sidney Sheldon’s Angel of the Dark made me do. This whodunnit, psychological thriller brings together the violent and bloody collision of the two worlds of orphanage homes …
The totally unexpected beginning of this story had me thinking: ‘Who starts a novel like that?’ The closest would be how Margaret Atwood, who, in a recent ad for an online masterclass, says she would have rewritten the beginning of Little Red Riding Hood to say: ‘ It was dark inside the wolf.’ Taiye Selasi’s …
Colour Me Yellow: Searching For My Family Truth, the autobiography by Thuli Nhlapo is a compelling read. For me, an autobiography is someone else’s story, however, this book is more than that. It touched me deeply because it is as much my story, as it is that of many other people. The themes of her story …
Be A People Person by John C Maxwell is a self-help published in 1989 and is about how to be a leader that relates to people in order to be effective in your role. In this book John C Maxwell demonstrates techniques that draw people towards a leader; he teaches how as a leader you …
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Are You With Us by Mxolisi Mgxashe is an autobiography published in 2006 and is about his life as a PAC activist during the apartheid era. In this book Mgxashe shares story of his life from when he was recruited into the PAC in high school, his involvement with the party until the party was …
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a political satire written in a manner of a modern fable published in 1945 and is about how freedom fighters eventually betray their principles once they take over power. Orwell makes this point making use of farm animals going through life under the oppression of a human owner. In …
The Rwandan Genocide in 1994 did not only change the political state of the country but it also destroyed and took away lives of many of its citizens.Immaculee was a young girl when the Rwanadan genocide took place.She tells a story of her childhood/teenage years, her relationship with her family and how the genocide destroyed …
Ebrahim Harvey’s book on deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, should have been named: Kgalema Motlanthe, A NECESSARY biography, instead of “A political biography” To some people (read: me) Kgalema Motlanthe appeared in our collective South African lives as the guy who was willing to be the “stop-gap” president when the then president, Thabo Mbeki, was unceremoniously …